Thursday, July 08, 2010

[Known to the French as Fort Carillon, Fort Ticonderoga* was built at a narrows near the southern end of Lake Champlain where the rapids of the La Chute River empty; strategically placed 6 km (3.5 miles) between Lake Champlain and Lake George, it was used to control crucial trade routes between the English-held Hudson River Valley and the French-held Saint Lawrence River valley, and as such came into play frequently during the French and Indian War and, to a lesser extent, the American Revolution.]

1853 - Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay's Uraga Harbor with the intention of opening up Japan to Western trade; after meeting with officials of the Tokugawa Shogunate he was directed to Nagasaki, which at the time was the only Japanese port open to trade with foreigners.

1999 - Allen Lee Davis became the last person executed by electric chair in Florida for the May 1982 murder of Nancy Weiler, her unborn child and two daughters, Kristina (9) and Katherine (5).

2004 - American Marine Michael Brown was convicted on Okinawa for 'attempting an indecent act' and 'destruction of property', and was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for the attempted rape of a Filipina bartender named Victoria Nakamine.

*With which I am clearly obsessed, having last posted a picture of Fort Ticonderoga here on May 10th.*share on: facebook

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You are a Social Justice Crusader, also known as a rights activist. You believe in equality, fairness, and preventing neo-Confederate conservative troglodytes from rolling back fifty years of civil rights gains.